Labor's answer is effectively to give affected families a choice: pay the minimum tax, restructure or surrender much of the discretion for which the discretionary trust exists in the first place. That is not simplification.

Labor has abolished the coalition's Local Roads and Community Infrastructure Program, which gave untied money to councils so they could decide how the funding was spent locally.

Our farmers grow food and fibre, our businesses employ local people, hospitality and tourism businesses welcome Victorians to our amazing natural landscapes and our communities volunteer, innovate and contribute far beyond their size.

We will cut $9.4 billion from Labor's bloated climate bureaucracy and another $7.3 billion from corporate welfare. That means ending taxpayer funded subsidies for Labor's expensive green energy experiments.

"Mallee families, farmers and small businesses have been hit from every direction by higher power bills, higher interest rates and the consequences of Labor's expensive policy experiments railroading farms, dividing local communities and turning

Our cancer care networks are very fragile due to our dependence on fly-in fly-out specialists or flights to get patients down to Melbourne. Our long-term answer must include training and retaining more medical professionals in regional Australia

The government now quite correctly says all 31 primary health networks have at least one clinic. Consider what that means in my electorate. For women in Mildura within the enormous Murray PHN, their clinic is in Bendigo, which is 400km away.

The reality is that this system has significant limitations that many Australians simply do not understand. Temporary disaster roaming only works when there is at least one other network tower available, so one is not enough.

No-one should fear for their safety simply for doing their job. This is not who we as Australians are. We believe in freedom of speech, robust debate and the right to disagree.